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Tag Archives: Department of English Literature
Jess Brisley’s UROP in Special Collections: Publishing Class
Jess Brisley, English Lit and Theatre, 2nd year, UoR This summer, I spent six weeks undertaking a research project based in the archives of Special Collections at the Museum of English Rural life as part of the UROP scheme with … Continue reading
In memory of Tony Watkins
I first met Tony Watkins in the early 1990s at a children’s literature conference in Oxford, little imagining that I would be able to join him as a colleague at Reading just a few years later in 1995, when I … Continue reading
Oscar Wilde, Prison Archives
Professor Peter Stoneley writes: A few years ago, I spent the university summer vacation in the Prison Archives at the Berkshire Record Office. I knew that scholars had not looked at the material closely, and I hoped to find traces … Continue reading
Jess Phillips MP at the University of Reading (16th November 2017)
Dr Madeleine Davies (Department of English Literature) write: The Vice-Chancellor’s Endowment Fund generously supported the Department of English Literature and the Department of Politics and International Relations in hosting Jess Phillips MP at the University of Reading last week. … Continue reading
EMRC seminar
Monday 20 November 1 pm, EM G44: All Welcome Dr Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck), ‘Labouring literature: writing about work in early modern England’
Next EMRC seminar – Monday 6th November
6 NOVEMBER, Edith Morley G44, 1 pm: Gabriella Infante (KCL), ‘”The moving closets of brave Ladies, and beautifull virgins”: coaches through the male gaze on the Restoration stage’
Evan Hayles Gledhill at the British Library
On Halloween, Reading PhD student Evan Hayles Gledhill will be running a free session at the British Library to introduce library users to the magical texts, and texts about magic, held within the collections. Fantastic Books and Where to Find Them is a 45 minute … Continue reading
Award-winning author becomes inaugural Creative Fellow at the Samuel Beckett Research Centre
A multi-award-winning author will set out to create a new piece of creative work inspired by Samuel Beckett after being confirmed as the University of Reading’s first Beckett Creative Fellow. Eimear McBride, whose novel The Lesser Bohemians won a James … Continue reading
Searcher in the Dawn
Peter Stoneley writes: We are pleased to announce the publication of a novel by Cindy Becker, Searcher in the Dawn, produced in paperback and as an e-book by Endeavour Press. The book is based on some of the research that … Continue reading
MA Creative Writing Pays Off
Shane O’Neill writes: I am in my Grandmother’s library. Surrounding me on the walls are lines of leather-bound tomes, heavily battered spines and curled yellowing paper. I am four and cannot read. Nonetheless, I sit with a book in my … Continue reading